Why do we gain weight when we go on a diet?

There has been lots of research to support the miserable idea that we get fatter when we are trying to lose weight.

What a horrible discovery after weeks of struggling with a diet, eating food we don't want and don't like!

In part, when we are on a diet, we think only of food. We buy special diet foods, we read slimming magazines full of articles about food. We spend more time than normal thinking about food when we are on a diet.

A study from Bristol University shows that diet foods encourage overeating. When we are faced with a meal that we know is low-calorie, we just eat more to compensate. And if we are buying low-calorie prepared foods from the supermarket, we should check how many servings they contain. Other research shows that once the pack is opened, it is eaten. So a 2-person serving would be eaten by the one person sitting in front of it.


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